Fix comp player drop issue and SR

[Cyne-1821]

ok you useless programmers, when a player drops from comp, that player should loose the SR. the match should end and no SR should be lost by players that did not drop. fix this GD issue. its not fair to loose SR because others drop

[Winterburn-11543]

Don’t blow a bloodvessel, whatever you do.

[Koringul-11212]

Easily exploited and thus not implemented.

[WyomingMyst-1633]

Blizzard has a reason to why penalties still stand when players disconnect. Read about that policy here:

Overwatch Technical Issues, SR Loss, and Leaver Penalties

Hey everybody, I wanted to take some time today to discuss Leaver Penalties and how they relate to Technical issues. We understand that leaver penalties are an annoying thing to experience. Technical issues can be complicated to troubleshoot. To add penalties to your account can seem like adding insult to injury. This isn’t our intent. The competitive penalty system may not be perfect, but there is reason behind it. When we created the leaver penalty system, we took in a lot of player feedbac…

[WRAXU-2363]

Is it only me cant see why i m losing my SR if some1 leave on my team or it doesnt explain this?

i mean i lose matches 5v6 and losing my sr.

[WyomingMyst-1633]

All remaining players still receive the full match result and full SR adjustment. This ensures there is no incentivized reason to pressure or bully teammates into leaving. This policy was explained when they made the change all the way back in season 1:

We’ve recently implemented a change on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One so that, if a player leaves mid-match, it will no longer affect how Skill Rating is adjusted at the end of a match.

Some context behind this change:

When you are you placed into a Competitive Play match, the game calculates each team’s probability of winning. This calculation helps identify how evenly matched two teams are, which in turn informs how your Skill Rating will be adjusted following a win or loss. Right now, the way system works is that if your team is favored to win, you will gain less Skill Rating for a win and lose more Skill Rating for a loss. And if your team is NOT favored to win, you will gain more Skill Rating for a win and lose less Skill Rating for a loss.

Previously, if a player from either team left mid-match, the game would automatically recalculate each team’s probability of winning, taking a look at not only who left the match, but also when they left. The assumption was that if a team was a person down, the odds of them winning would go down, too, and that the most accurate thing we could do was account for this when adjusting each player’s Skill Rating at the end of the match.

Despite being more accurate, we received a lot of feedback that this recalculation just didn’t feel great and that it incentivized bad leaver behavior—which is last thing we want to do in Competitive Play. As a result, the game will no longer recalculate each team’s probability of winning whenever one or more people leave. This means that your Skill Rating will always be adjusted based on your team’s odds at the beginning of the match, even if there are leavers on your or the enemy’s team.

From a technical perspective, this will make Skill Rating adjustments a little less accurate for that specific match, but it should ultimately feel better for the players who stay and finish it out (plus, your Skill Rating will correct itself the next time you complete a match with no leavers). We also hope this will remove the incentive to “troll” a winning team by leaving, since it will no longer have an impact on anyone’s Skill Rating.

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As always, we’ll continue to keep an eye on Competitive Play and make quick improvements whenever possible. Thank you so much for your feedback and helping us make Overwatch better!

https://mystgraphics.com/overwatchforumarchive/competitive-leavingandSRadjustments.html

[MetalHead-1811]

Because if they let the rest of the team off the hook, the easiest way that would be exploited would be 6-stacks, all of whom have multiple alt accounts, to pick one person on their team to leave a match the moment they start losing, or even right before the end of the match. The one player who agrees to be the sacrificial lamb leaves the match, loses SR, gets a ban, but the rest of the team faces no penalty and no SR drop, despite all being in on it. The banned player simply signs in to one of his alts, rejoins the group, and they do it all again, picking a different team member to take the fall the next time it happens. Rinse and repeat until they find a match they can win. It’s retroactive queue dodging.

They’ll farm SR this way, leaving as many matches as they have un-banned alts, only sticking around if it looks like they’ll win.

And in that case, why should the winning team get zero SR, when they did everything right, and would have won the match, only to have one player on the opposing team leave the match 30 seconds before the win?

All you would be doing is shifting the penalty to the winning team, who now get nothing, even though they deserved the win and the SR gain.

So what I’m saying is that the people who keep looking for ways to work the system and gain an unfair advantage, instead of just playing the game as intended, are the reason you lose SR when someone on your team leaves.

[WRAXU-2363]

All remaining players still receive the full match result and full SR adjustment. This ensures there is no incentivized reason to pressure or bully teammates into leaving. This policy was explained when they made the change all the way back in season 1:

makes sense ty both of you.

[ZENonACID-2677]

How about a Back filler.

1. We will all Backfill once per X a week
2. Back filler will not loose SR no matter the outcome.
3. Back filler will not win SR if he dose not win the game.
4. Back filler will gain 30 or more CP points even in a loss to compensate him for his time (who cares if they are more golden guns in the game but Back filler will be happy).
5. The rest of the 5 who had the quitter will suffer the curent usual loss or win of SR according to the outcome.
6. The 2 minutes period for the quitter to rejoin stay as is , if the back filler arrives 10 seconds before a loss … well tough luck.

[samanouske69-1219]

They haven’t fixed it for game’s lifetime. Either they are clueless on how to handle it, or don’t give a hoot I just started to play the game for my own fun, without giving 2 hoots. Because losing time to these games with leavers is just a time sink. Not worth the headache

[Monster-14291]

just b/c it’s a policy doesn’t mean it’s worth a damn!! In fact this is the dumbest implementation of any system and only used and abused by the devs to keep people playing. It’s a damn joke and about as ignorant as the devs who STILL can’t fix their broken game!!!

[Koringul-11212]

You not liking something doesnt mean its a bad idea or doesnt make sense

You just…dont like it. The concepts can exist simultaneously.

[TǍURUS-2430]

None of this makes sense.
You could just take SR from an entire stack when someone in the said stack leaves and make pressuring someone to leave a reportable offense. You are litterally aggravating the gameplay for no reason.

[XellOs-11913]

I’d be masters in a week by abusing that with throwaway accounts. You shouldn’t argue things you don’t conceptually understand.

[Monster-14291]

This statement makes zero sense. If you’re in a stack and your teammate leaves or vice verse…you won’t climb. Good luck with that though lolz and you probably should not argue things YOU don’t understand!!

[Koringul-11212]

Swing and a miss there, monster

[XellOs-11913]

Um you leave the games you’re going to lose. The throwaway account leaves, meaning you lose 0 SR on losses. On wins you both stay and you gain. so you NEVER LOSE SR. How is this hard for you?

[Monster-14291]

how long do you think they will actually last with one account before it’s season banned and then comp banned?! How is htat such a hard concept for you?!?!?!?! Leave games and you will be season banned!! A 3 year old knows that by now genius smh

[Monster-14291]

please stop talking about things you cannot comprehend…might help your day some

[XellOs-11913]

You have multiple throw away accounts. You cycle them so the leaving penalty never increments (you can leave like 15% of games and never get more than the 10 minute suspension)